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- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
International Christopher M. Gordon and Chad M. CarrHarvard Business School Case 212-056 Dirigo International is proposing a major expansion of their life sciences research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
lagging expansion plans for its Supercharger EV station network. The number of new charging ports opened from May through August tumbled 28 percent from the same period a year earlier. The reason? “Widespread layoffs in April gutted the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
"improbable" emergence and expansion of that business to investigate the challenges and opportunities faced by an individual who seeks to build an enterprise around his own human capital. It includes background information on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
balance internal resources. On the one hand, they need to focus some of their people on continually improving and growing the core business. On the other hand, they must free others to break all the rules in the name of growth and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
cultures. In August 2008, Wim needed to decide on the right degree of interaction or integration of Bananas and Demonstrate. He also wanted to expand the companies' activities to a more comprehensive marketing offering and needed to consider View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
horizontal expansion into new alternative asset products and services, both organically and through acquisition. These included businesses in private equity, real estate, funds of hedge funds, alternative credit, opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
management—in order to use land as a key instrument of macroeconomic regulation, helping the CCP respond to domestic and international economic trends and manage expansion and contraction. Key episodes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. The diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Abstract—We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview-preparatory power posing-would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising charities in the United Kingdom, the organization's trustees wrestle with how to meet the needs of this vast and most vulnerable population through program View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
management, flawed internal and external accounting, low skill and/or low integrity people, and corrosive cultures. Piecemeal attempts to fix elements of corporate governance will fail. The problem, to illustrate, is not just the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the presence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover new facts about the applications and their relationships in an enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability of repayment. Working PapersThe View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne